April

     It is amazing how quickly the school year has flown by. We are already coming up to the pen pal picnic in May with our friends from Nativity. Throughout the year we exchange letters with the second graders from Nativity culminating with the picnic where we get to meet and play with our pen pals.

The children will be doing an autobiography which ties in with our reading series and the autobiography of Pam Munoz Ryan called Stirring Up Memories. The children enjoy finding out about themselves from their parents. baby books and other sources. Writing is a big part of second grade Language Arts and both these enjoyable activities are ways for  them to become more comfortable with writing.

     In Math, we will be covering three-digit addition and subtraction. For Science, we will be doing things that revolve around Earth Day, Arbor Day, and our wonderful outside garden with Mrs Gross. Having this wonderful weather will help us use the outside for much of our science during the next month.

     We are finishing up our unit on the Mass. This unit helped give them a greater understanding of  the different parts of the Mass which prepared them for making their First Holy Communion on Sunday, April 15th.